Summer Reading List

You are required to read the works listed under your section. You will be tested on these works during the first two weeks of school in September. You are required to pass this test in order to pass the first marking period in English.

These books are popular titles and available in paperback. Students may obtain them in three ways:

borrow them from the public library

purchase them from bookstores

purchase or borrow them from upperclassmen

FRESHMEN

Your letter of acceptance and/or certificate indicated whether you were enrolled in the college preparatory program or honors program.

SETON DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR PROGRAM AND HONORS PROGRAM

Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith

Reading Journal – read both books and respond to three of the following:

Pretend you are Jane or Francie. Write a series of diary entries in the voice of that character.

Write an imaginary dialogue between the main characters of the two books. What would they say to one another?

Which character did you like the best? Why?

If you could spend a day in the fictional world of one of these books, which book would you choose? Why? What would you do?